Chapter 17

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Mature content!! 🔞

Riley p.o.v

"I'm glad you sorted things out." viv says to me as we clean away the dishes from dinner. "so am I, Im glad I didn't leave." "so am I." viv smiles at me. We go into the livingroom and the girls say they want to have a movie night and I jump up and down and run out the room. I return a few moments later and all the girls look worried. "sorry I got excited. Here." I say giving them each their pair of pyjamas. "these are so cute." Beth says. " you really are a big softy." leah laughs. We get into our pyjamas and we looks great. "come on let's get a photo." beth says and grabs her phone. "say cringe." Beth jokes making everyone laugh. To be fair it was a great photo because it was genuine smiles. I loved it. My phone pings and I see I was tagged in Beth's insta post.

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Missed being home. Ain't we cute ❤️

I like the post and put my phone down. A few moments into the film my phone pings like crazy. "sorry" I say to the girls for disturbing them. I quickly check my phone and gasp. "what's up?" leah asks concerned. I can't speak I just turn my phone around. It's a video of me singing helium to leah. Leah just stares at the phone and doesn't speak. "what is that?" Beth asks "someone that seen your photo tagged me in this. They know I sang that to leah and they heard me say that I was cooper." fuck what am i going to do? "do you want the world to know you're Cooper?" leah finally speaks. "you only just found out." that was hard enough, can I deal with the whole world knowing? "you know we are behind you all the way. We will support you." leah says kissing my head. "fuck it. Let's do it." I might regret this but knowing I have the girls there for me I feel like I can do anything. The girls get excited and we come up with a plan. We decide to go live on my insta and announce it that way. I ask the girls if they can be in the video too and they all are happy to. Before I go live i remember something. "what if they ask questions about us?" I direct my question to leah. "the video shows me singing the song to you. What if they ask if we are dating?" we haven't been dating long and I know leah likes her privacy. "if they do we answer it honestly, if you're happy to. And if they don't we continue to keep it private. I don't care if the world knows about us but we cannot let them ruin us. The minute this is out we are under constant scrutiny." leah says making my heart melt. She cares so much. " okay, lets do this." I say looking at the girls, they all smile and nod. I click the live button and I can already feel the nerves. Leah puts her hand on my thigh out of of the cameras view. " hey guys. I'm Riley and as most of youll know this is leah, Beth and Vivianne. We posted a photo of us in our matching pyjamas and a few people recognised me from a video that was taken earlier on. A video of someone singing and then confirming they are the artist Cooper. Well I am here to confirm that the person in the video is myself. I am Cooper. I wasn't wanting to let anyone know who I was but as that has been taken out of my hands now I feel it is time to address this head on rather than have people continue to speculate. Especially my followers who have listened to my music and support me. I can answer some questions live just now and I will try to answer as many as I can once I'm off the live." I say and I can already see so many questions. " okay, I'll let the girls choose the questions." I look at viv and she picks the first question. " did you write the song you sang on the video?" viv reads out. " yes I wrote it. It's called helium and I can release it if you guys like it." I let Beth pick the next one. " does this mean we will get music videos and live shows?" she reads and I can see she's wanting to know this question too. I laugh and answer. "Im not sure about music videos. I have no experience with that so I wouldn't know how to do that myself. For live shows, again I'm not sure because I would have to organise venues but it's something I would be Interested in." I explain and i know the three girls beside me are just as excited as the viewers. I find it cute. It's leahs turn to ask the question. "in the video you sang helium to leah. Was the song about leah?" I'm shocked she picked that one. She told me to be honest. So I have to tell the truth. I look at leah and she smiles at me. She wants the world to know. I smile back at leah and look at the screen. " yes, helium is about leah." I answer simply. The minute I do I see so many questions asking if we are together, I decide not to answer anymore and give me and leah a little bit of privacy. We all say goodbye and end the live. "phew, im glad that's over." I say relaxing back. "how do you feel?" leah says pulling me into her chest. "better now it's done." I say wrapping my arm around leahs body. "I think it went well. I've been looking at all your songs and they've got so many more views now. The video has gone viral and your name is trending all over insta, twitter and tiktok. You and leah are the most trending hashtag and there's so many edits of you two. This is going to be huge." Beth says and I start to worry again but leah grabs my hand and squeezes it. "it's okay, we've got this." we watch another movie but I fall asleep on leahs chest before it finishes.

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